Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi all, >I'm planning to make a mirror of debian i-386 (slink, potato, >woody) at my lab and want to know to measure how big it will be and if >someone could me provide an rsync line or mirror config file for >this.
I only mirror the 386 portions of potato, US and non-US, and my archive is about 2G. I had a major problem setting up a potato mirror using any type of ftp-mirroring utility (like "mirror"). When I first started there were a lot of links in potato to slink and the ftp server on most of the debian mirror sites refused to flatten these symbolic links. If I had continued trying to use "mirror" I would've had to copy both potato and slink, both binary-all and binary-i386, in order to have a functional mirror. Instead I started using a http mirroring utility. I use w3mir but there are quite a few around that will do the job. The advantage is that there aren't any symbolic links and I can mirror just the binary-i386 directory structure and not worry about. I imagine most, if not all the links from potato to slink are gone now, but if you, for example, wanted to mirror just woody I suspect you'd be in the same situation, ie., having to ftp mirror both woody and potato, with the binary-i386 and binary-all subdirectories. Plus http has it's other advantages like still being easily accessible for those of us behind firewalls. Good luck, Gary
